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General Electric 50,837 --Electric fan (1902) --X-ray tube (1913) --First U.S. jet engine (1941) --Solid-state laser (1962) --Computed tomography, a.k.a. CT scanner...
...remarkable agreement between Napster and Bertelsmann pans out [BUSINESS, Nov. 13], the New York State liquor authority might want to investigate, as the legal age for drinking alcohol in New York is 21. In describing how the partnership came together, you noted that Bertelsmann chief Thomas Middelhoff and Napster founder Shawn Fanning consumed a bottle of "$219 Phelps Insignia Cabernet" wine with their power lunch at a New York City restaurant. Perhaps that was the reason why 20-year-old Fanning was so "entranced" by the German media giant. Should the deal turn sour, I'll wonder if the alcohol...
Colombini's lawyer, Michael C. Berry, is dealing with the FBI, State Department and Cuban officials; the government there has said it wants to solve the problem "as rapidly as possible...with absolute impartiality...
...even as American kids have become alarmingly obese. In 1991, 42% of high school kids participated in daily PE. Now only 25% do. Less than a quarter of all children get 20 minutes of vigorous exercise a day; 25% of all students don't get any PE. Only seven states require elementary PE teachers to be certified; three don't require PE at all. Georgia, the state with the highest rate of increase in obesity in the past 10 years, voted last summer to give middle schools the option of reducing PE. Only Illinois requires daily PE for grades...
Advocates say one of the most difficult hurdles is changing people's perceptions. Mary Lou Cowlishaw, an Illinois state legislator who has worked on education issues for 18 years, admits that before meeting Naperville's Lawler, she was not as zealous a PE advocate. "PE the way it used to be probably should be abolished," she says. "The last person you wanted to be was the last one picked for a team, and I was always chosen last." Now Cowlishaw is Lawler's "biggest fan" and the sponsor of a proposal to the state board of education...